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“I’m used to playing with another person. To do something like that by myself, I was kind of nervous,” said <a href="spotify:artist:60TxtNQBbDL8HKL0b6Gm3T" data-name="Walter Wolfman Washington">Walter Wolfman Washington</a>, sitting in a chair in his living room and talking about his new record My Future Is My Past, produced by Ben Ellman of <a href="spotify:artist:4rMUtWPGbE6waga7PQO0oQ" data-name="Galactic">Galactic</a>. He smiles and continues, “Oh man, it was really a thing. I had never done something like that. I had to really discipline myself where I couldn’t really underplay and really overplay, so I had to stay really in the middle which was a trick for me. I was amazed at my own self at how it turned out.”
Now 74 years old, Walter “Wolfman” Washington has been a mainstay in the New Orleans music scene since the early 1960s. He cut his teeth backing up some of the best singers and performers in New Orleans history including <a href="spotify:artist:0En4EEcDMJ5kaUCf1aZ9js" data-name="Lee Dorsey">Lee Dorsey</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:24qtJegdRiX2TPRvPN6rzk" data-name="Johnny Adams">Johnny Adams</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:01Z8Z9K54zewyP04ZfGLSv" data-name="Irma Thomas">Irma Thomas</a> before putting together his long time band <a href="spotify:artist:0FQlqalf0xZMmacIcE4Cdw" data-name="Walter Wolfman Washington & The Roadmasters">Walter Wolfman Washington & The Roadmasters</a>, who have been burning down and burning up local and national stages since their first gigs in the 1980s. This new record confirms what fans have known for years: Walter “Wolfman Washington has soul to go along with that fire.
Now 74 years old, Walter “Wolfman” Washington has been a mainstay in the New Orleans music scene since the early 1960s. He cut his teeth backing up some of the best singers and performers in New Orleans history including <a href="spotify:artist:0En4EEcDMJ5kaUCf1aZ9js" data-name="Lee Dorsey">Lee Dorsey</a> , <a href="spotify:artist:24qtJegdRiX2TPRvPN6rzk" data-name="Johnny Adams">Johnny Adams</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:01Z8Z9K54zewyP04ZfGLSv" data-name="Irma Thomas">Irma Thomas</a> before putting together his long time band <a href="spotify:artist:0FQlqalf0xZMmacIcE4Cdw" data-name="Walter Wolfman Washington & The Roadmasters">Walter Wolfman Washington & The Roadmasters</a>, who have been burning down and burning up local and national stages since their first gigs in the 1980s. This new record confirms what fans have known for years: Walter “Wolfman Washington has soul to go along with that fire.
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